It is a powerful tale of the incest of which she was the victim.
Christine Angot won the Medici Prize on Tuesday for “Le Voyage dans l'Est”.
Meeting in a restaurant in the Odéon district in Paris, the jury crowned the 62-year-old novelist for one of the most noticed books of the literary re-entry 2021. Very moved in front of the jury, she thanked him by saying : " Its very important ".
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The Medici Prize for Foreign Novels was awarded to Swedish-Tunisian Jonas Hassen Khemiri for “La Clause paternelle” (Actes Sud).
The prize for the essay was awarded to Jakuta Alikavazovic for “Like a sky in us” (Stock).